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Date of source: Thursday, October 17, 2019
When an opportunity presented itself for a seventeen year old female refugee from South Sudan to flee, she took it. However, upon arriving to Cairo, she was imprisoned in a residential apartment for three months where she was repeatedly raped. After this horrifying experience, she discovered that...
Date of source: Thursday, September 12, 2019
Statements by ʿAbd Allāh Rushdī, an Egyptian researcher, imām, and preacher at al-Sayiddah Nafīssah Mosque, about marrying female captives and having sex with them is causing a flurry of backlash. When he was asked on Twitter about owning a female slave and having sex with her, he said, “She is a...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 30, 2019
The interview with Ambassador Mona Omar was held at the Diplomatic Club, in Cairo on 7th July; the discussion was fully recorded with the Ambassador’s permission. This text was presented to Ambassador Mona Omar on July 21, 2019. The Ambassador had no objections to publishing this text.
Ambassador...
Date of source: Thursday, July 18, 2019
Amīra, a 15 year old girl from Fayūm, experienced a terrifying nightmare that no one could have ever anticipated.
Date of source: Saturday, September 28, 2019
On Saturday, September 28th, the Turkish-Muslim association known as (ICMG - Islamische Gemeinschaft Millî Görüş) led a number of events across 25 cities in Germany and the Netherlands to draw attention to what they alleged amounts to discrimination against Muslim women in their daily lives.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 18, 2019
When asked by one of his followers about the reason behind the rapes of women during Islamic wars, Shaykh ‘Abd Allāh Rushdī replied “these are human beings and they have needs,” going on to explain that these needs could not be considered shameful as long as the woman has consented to the sexual...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Under the theme “We are all with you” the Goethe-Institute, in collaboration with the “ʿAyn al-Samaka” cinematic cultural initiative, will host its event tomorrow, in Cairo at 5 pm.
Date of source: Monday, April 15, 2019
Today is the fifth commemoration of the 112 girls that were abducted by Būkū Ḥarām, who are still missing.
On April 14, 2014, armed men broke into a secondary school in Chibok and abducted 276 students between the age of 12 and 17, of which 57 escaped by jumping off the trucks. Later, 107 girls...
Date of source: Saturday, April 13, 2019
The Social Solidarity Minister Ghāda Wālī announced that some amendments have been introduced to the Operating Regulation of the Women’s Hosting and Guidance Shelters in an aim to improve their services.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 13, 2012
For the third time in one week, two women wearing the niqāb assaulted a 30-year-old woman of the name Nārīmān Samuel by severely beating her, cutting her hair by force and threw her out of the metro’s women-only car. [Mamdūh Hasan and Ahmad Sa’d, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, Nov. 13, p. 3] Read original...
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.